Colombia: 'Cowardly Attack' Exposes Colombia Activists in Firing Line

May 6, 2019 | Anastasia Moloney
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An attack against a leading and award-winning Colombian environmentalist, Francia Marquez, has put the spotlight on the dangers facing campaigners in a country where one activist is gunned down every two days on average.

Marquez and other rights activists survived an attack against them involving grenades and gunfire late on Saturday as they held a meeting in a rural area in the country’s southwestern Cauca province, according to local media reports.

So far, no one has been arrested for the